Price v. Karnes

There can be no question in this case, and none is made, that the first contracts of June and July, 1857, between the parties, concerning the property in controversy, were conditional sales. It was so expressly agreed in the contracts written at the time. The purchaser could elect to take the property absolutely in fee, or she could disaffirm and have her money returned, with an agreed rate of interest.

But the real question at issue is, whether the deed of August, 1857, for the lots mentioned in the first contracts, and the deed of 1862, . for an additional number of lots, both absolute in…